Lin Jin held Lightning-Cleaver across his side, his voice flat and cold. "Dead."
Yinshuang's grip on her Ice Spear abruptly tightened.
She did not believe it. However inadequate Ghost Pupil might have been, he was still in the middle of the Transcendent Stage Realm, possessed two Dōjutsu, and had the Weird Domain supporting him. Even if he could not defeat Lin Jin, he could never have been killed in such a short time.
Besides, Ghost Pupil was intimately connected to this Weird Domain. If he really were dead, this Weird Domain could not possibly still be standing.
She forced down her surging emotions, shifted her gaze away from Lin Jin, and stretched her perception to its limit to search for Ghost Pupil's presence.
But even with her perception covering all of Jiangcheng, she could not detect so much as a lingering trace of Ghost Pupil.
"You're lying to me. As long as this Weird Domain remains, he's still alive." Yinshuang's voice regained its usual chill, but the faint tremor at the end betrayed her. "What exactly did you do to him?"
"What difference would knowing make? You'll meet the same end soon enough."
With that, Lin Jin tightened his right hand around Lightning-Cleaver and instantly hurled a Flying Thunder God Kunai with his left, vanishing in the golden light of Flying Thunder God.
When he reappeared, he was already in front of Yinshuang. Lightning-Cleaver swept down in a crossing slash, wreathed in purple lightning and the black flames of Amaterasu.
Yinshuang gritted her teeth. Nine Ice Spears shot out simultaneously and collided with Lin Jin's blade. Before Amaterasu's black flames, the Ice Spears might as well have been made of paper. The black flames spread backward along their paths, setting her ice Superpower ablaze layer by layer.
She retreated repeatedly,